Astrid

Astrid Peterman is fighting with regular forces and has already shown herself to be a skilled fighter, driven in her desire to push back the invaders and seek revenge. She proves herself and is taken on by Captain DeSalva to become an assassin. She must further prove herself as a young woman in a male-dominated world. She decides that she will have no red lines, and nothing will be off limits when she is on a mission. Riedel enters the enemy country as a deep cover spy, easily able to pass himself off as a native, and whose sole mission is to find out what the wonder weapon is. Brigit Malaya, the enemy officer also has to prove herself, not only by fighting against her enemies, but in fighting against the deep-rooted misogyny in her country that devalues women. She works her way up through the ranks by virtue of brutal combat and is hardened by it; her ambition overriding her humanity, and all the while she is unaware that she is being watched and admired by the country's dictator.

Astrid Book 4: The Legacy tells the story of the war between Arralan and Corella and Astrid's role in it, but as seen through the eyes of the embittered daughter of a soldier Astrid had killed. Astrid becomes a diplomat after the war and works tirelessly to help rebuild the former enemy country. She is determined to improve the lives of the Corellan people now that the years of Hallenberg's dictatorship are over. But the girl doesn't see it that way. She believes all the old propaganda and the lies that say the Arralans started the war. Smouldering inside her is a brooding hatred for all Arralans. Years pass, and her resentment simmers below the surface, just waiting for a vent. It erupts after she meets an old Corellan soldier who tells her how the war ended-his version of how the war ended. Then through her work the girl, now a fully grown woman, discovers everything Astrid had done, including the way Astrid had killed her father. Enraged, she becomes determined to undo everything Astrid has achieved and return Corella to what she believes is its former glory.